We took the plunge two months ago and decided to do something we had been avoiding since our arrival in Amsterdam - buy a car.
S started his thorough research on cars here. He wanted something cheap but good. I wanted something spacious. We finally found a Daihatsu which pretty much met our demands. Nothing special, but not bad.
However, now that we have a car, I thought I should dare to drive it too, and before that, obviously I needed to undergo the daunting task of lessons and exams.
My driving instructor from Rijschool Breed during my last lesson asked me "Are you writing about your lessons in your blog?" I said no. He asked why not, and I asked myself the same question. "Why not!"
Well, so here I am, to my very precious little Amsterdam blog, to which I return too not very often, but whenever I have something interesting to share.
I am driving around Amsterdam these days and absolutely loving it. O yes, its hard. So many lanes, so many ways to look, so many things to notice and on top of that handle the car. But, I cannot wait to hold my license in my hand and zoom around the town with my baby in the back seat.
I do think that I would avoid driving in Central Amsterdam at all costs. Narrow roads, trams, cyclists and pedestrians do not exactly provide the ideal situation for driving a car. I would mainly be using the highway a lot, for going to places difficult to reach by public transport.
It would be good to be independent, and it would certainly open a lot more roads for me to explore.
So lets wish me best of luck, and may my first ever driving license come from Amsterdam!
